Re: Daft SCSI ordering (2.0.xx) Future domain

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Thu, 20 Aug 1998 17:37:36 +1000

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On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:44:30 +1000,
Dancer <dancer@brisnet.org.au> wrote:
>Of course, the motherboard BIOS wants to boot off of the lowest numbered
>SCSI device. Lilo on the other hand doesn't want to make that the boot
>drive, because "it's not the first drive".

You can override that with lilo.conf

boot=/dev/sda
...
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x80

Sometimes need to do that because of IDE on the M/B, BIOS lets me boot
from SCSI but I have to tell lilo that sda is the boot disk. Cannot
help with the strange order though.

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